A landmark book about intelligent design has hit the bookstore shelves. Ill tell you about it.

In recent years, there have been several important books about intelligent design that go to the debate about evolution and the origins of life. Bill Dembskis The Design Inference was first. Then along came Darwins Black Box by Michael Behe, showing the irreducible complexity of the cell, which casts grave doubts on Darwinian evolution as an explanation for life and higher life forms.

Now weve got Signature in the Cell by the Discovery Institutes Dr. Stephen Meyer.

Im going to warn you up front: Signature in the Cell is not light reading. If you are not conversant in molecular biology, you might feel a bit overwhelmed at times.

But this is a profound, hugely important book for anybody interested in the scientific debate of our timesthe origins of life. I feel its so important that we have posted an excerpt of the book at our website, BreakPoint.org, along with links to materials that will help you understand the main points of Signature in the Cell....

Could it be that you're just upset because Dr. Stephen Myer has demonstrated that every naturalistic explanation for the origin of DNA has failed miserably, whereas the only known empirical cause of complex, functionally specified, digital codes (such as DNA) is intelligent design?

What I found most interesting about Behe’s book was his description of the cascade of events involved in blood clotting. Although the subject matter is somewhat technical in nature his writing style is easy reading. An interesting read.

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posted on 09/26/2009 11:30:55 AM PDT
by count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)

Bridges just happen miraculously and chemistry is a random parlor game of chance.

You are confusing operational science with origins science. Even the Intelligent Design movement has no problems with operational science...the dispute comes when you attempt to use the Scientific Method to "prove" the origin of life and the Universe. Two different areas of study.

It really is a great book. I learned so much about the cell, dna, rna, and he does a great job of refuting all theories that have been developed since Crick figured out the structure of DNA. All theories start after DNA/proteins self-duplicate. No scientist or mathematician has explained, let alone proven, the beginning of the beginning of life. Not too hard a read either.

And why should a photon move away from its point of origin? And is it accelerated up to c or does it move at that velocity from the moment it is emitted? After all, it can be slowed down almost to a literal crawl.

There would be no 'science', no theory of 'evolution', if we were just like all the other life forms on Earth.

Something imbued us with a greater 'knowledge', and gave us the ability to 'create'. If it were just a process of evolution that gave us these abilities, it would have shown up in other life forms, and gradually improved. It did not.

Eventually via leftovers it reaches the dog.
The dog is told I made lasagna and now its his.
Later in dog history this is written down as truth and passed along.
“Humble made the lasagna and gave dog dominion over it, etc.”

Thousands of years later science dogs have discovered that oven
and pan were used. Evidence exists of ingredients playing a part.

HERESY! cry the creationist dogs. Humble created the
lasagna, it was told to us and we believe the word!

Well, I did. Made that lasagna, sure enough.
I just used pan, oven & ingredients to do it.

But, where are the dogs who scientifically determined that lasagna to have assembled itself by trial and error over trillions of years, and who bristle at the very notion of Humble having had anything to do with lasagna at all?

But, where are the dogs who scientifically determined that lasagna to have assembled itself by trial and error over trillions of years, and who bristle at the very notion of Humble having had anything to do with lasagna at all?

One explanation I've read re: the extraordinary complexity of DNA and the perfect balance we see in the universe and nature:

Evolution: Take all the parts of a watch, place in a box, shake it up and you have a watch.

Intelligent Design: The watch parts are assembled inside the box to fit perfectly just as they are designed. A completed watch is discovered when the box is opened.

A bit simplistic but the point is there is so much in the universe and our own DNA that fits perfectly in a balance that cannot exist if one part is out of balance that random evolution is highly unlikely.

Add to the fact Christ's shroud has NEVER been duplicated by modern science, the evidence is actually quite overwhelming for God as our Intelligent designer.

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posted on 09/26/2009 1:12:20 PM PDT
by newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)

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